Scope BLN

presents

 

JESSICA TUCKER AND NIMROD ASTARHAN

PRESENT THEIR LATEST PROJECTS

 

Friday, January 17 

Artist talk starts at 06:00 PM

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Jessica Tucker (she/they) is an American and Dutch artist, musician, and educator. Through performances, videos, sculptures, and installations, they playfully examine how machine-mediated vision constructs and distorts our experiences of embodiment, selfhood, and desire. Recent projects combine augmented reality, interactive video, and machine learning to visualize other-worldly transformations of the artist's own face and body. They explore cracks in machines as in humans, highlighting our entangled vulnerabilities in solidarity against the paralyzing myths of perfection, progress, and optimization. Jessica is currently conducting new artistic research in Germany through a residency at Scope BLN and at the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, supported by the Fulbright Germany program. In this talk, they will share recent works, as well as insight into the work to be developed at Scope in the coming months.

 

Nimrod Astarhan (they/them) is an artist, technologist, and educator. Their practice is based on a post-conceptual approach toward sculpture, installation, and media art, utilizing collaborations, digital technology, and electronic mechanisms. Their research-creation is re-earthing computational media and speculative history. It involves activating non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum contextualized through material, diasporical, historical, and philosophical lenses. Recent and upcoming showings include the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project, Ars Electronica, and ISEA. 

Their presentation, Intelligent Energies, will introduce a research-creation practice that considers digital art enmeshed in an ecology of energetic relationships between living organisms, earth energies, and media technology devices. It will introduce future directions for this practice, some of which will be explored during the residency at Scope BLN.

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